Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time primed to kick off next fall, the fund drive was pushed back a year, primarily due to the ongoing search for a new president. Now, worsening economic conditions throughout the nation threaten to further delay the fund drive...
Though the measures also required that the President first certify to Congress that sanctions were not working, supporters said the resolutions were tantamount -- but not identical -- to a declaration of war. Both houses also defeated alternative resolutions, sponsored by the Democratic leadership, calling for a delay in military action until sanctions had been given more time to work. In the Senate it lost 53 to 46 with 10 Democrats but just one Republican, Iowa's Charles Grassley, abandoning the party line. The House vote...
Saddam is already dangling various ideas for a so-called compromise before European and Arab visitors. The aim is to divide and weaken the coalition against him. At best, in his view, allies terrified of war would bring irresistible pressure on Bush to delay war or, if it begins, agree to a quick cease-fire and negotiations for a compromise settlement. In Saddam's view, forcing or luring the U.S. into negotiating would in itself be a victory of sorts; it would amount, he thinks, to Washington's recognition of his paramount role in the Middle East...
Among the traffic stuck behind the protesters was an oil truck from a Texaco dealer, White Oil of Boston. The Truck's driver, angry about the delay and apparently irritated by the activsts' cries of, "Hell no, we won't go! We won't fight for Texaco," urged the Boston police officers to arrest the crowd...
...representatives of the American people disagreed not only with the President but with their own leadership on that question. Barely half an hour after the Senate's opening session was gaveled to order, Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin upset the plans of majority leader George Mitchell to delay a floor fight over U.S. policy. When Mitchell proposed to the chamber that no resolutions on the gulf should be submitted before Jan. 23 unless the leadership approved, Harkin leaped to his feet. War is "being talked about in coffee shops, in the workplace and in the homes," the Iowa Democrat declared...